Photos: Modu named world's lightest phone

Partners include: Bee-Line (VimpelCom), Cellcom, Telecom Italia, Blaupunkt, Magellan Navigation Inc., SanDisk, Card Guard, Tele Atlas, Universal Music Group, WorldMate, Amphenol, ChiMei, In4Tel, Texas Instruments, Renesas, RiTdisplay, SKY MobileMedia and Varta.

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Here is the base of the Modu phone. It can be slipped into a modu jacket or phone enclosure, or a modu mate which adds a phone to a separate electronics device.

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Here is a concept music phone that comes with stereo speakers.

This concept sees the Modu inserted into a sat-nav, which can still make calls.

A car stereo Modu.

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